No one involved in this mess will end up looking good.

Here’s an excerpt from the AP story on Yahoo! Philippines News.

“It is a PR nightmare, not just for NBC but for Leno and Conan,” said Todd Gold, managing editor of Fancast.com.

“What is most surprising is seeing this happen on the network that carries their shows,” Gold told Reuters.

Media reports on Friday suggested NBC was close to resolving the mess. The Daily Beast said O’Brien would exit NBC with a large payout and be free to take a job elsewhere, despite reported threats from NBC that it would prevent him from working on a rival channel.

You can read the full story here.

Who do you believe is to blame for this mess?

Personally, I’ve always been on Team Letterman, so I’ll just keep watching Dave Letterman.

Here’s a clip of Letterman discussing the Leno-O’Brien-NBC “debacle”.

And here he is wondering if Leno will do the right thing.

Here’s a clip of Leno and O’Brien both bashing NBC on their shows.

OK, first off, I’m not a fan of Alec Baldwin who has just apologized to the Filipino nation via his blog on The Huffington Post for his “Filipino mail-order bride” comment when he guested on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Still, while I think Baldwin’s remark was stupid (then again, it was a joke), I also find it stupid for some Philippine government officials to blow this all out of proportion. I mean, we actually have action star-turned-senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. (yup, the same senator I blogged about in my post on the Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho sex video scandal) issuing a formal reaction that warns Baldwin of mayhem if he ever visits the Philippines. Not that Baldwin could, since our Bureau of Immigration has banned him from entering the country as an undesirable alien.

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